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Hand washing an essential part of good health Nov. 20: KNSD's Chris Chan shows just how important hand washing is to keeping illnesses, such as the H1N1 flu, from spreading.

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Submitted by BruceSiceloff on 11/18/2009 - 11:01 The NC 54 - I-40 interchange has the worst traffic congestion in Orange and Durham counties.

Leonor Ortiz Childers, 46, plays with her children, 3-year-old twins Miranda and Javier, right, and 18-month-old twins Julian and Ava, left, in Durham, N.C. Leonor developed heart failure suddenly when she had to be treated for breast cancer while pregnant with her second set of twins.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. A surge in job growth relative to the rest of the country has vaulted Durham-Chapel Hill to No.6 on the widely watched Milken Institute's "Best performing Metros" list.

Jordan Lake Christmas Tree Farm 2170 Martha's Chapel Road, Apex, NC 919-362-6300 919-387-4957 Hours of Operation: Opens the day after Thanksgiving-December 21st Wednesday-Sunday 9am to 5pm Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays Centrally located between Raleigh and Durham, this small family-oriented Chatham County Farm sells choose and cut trees.

The Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and surrounding areas are fantastic places to attend the local parades.

If you are living in Durham North Carolina and want to have the best possible party for your child, what should you do to make your childs party great? The most popular choice is hiring a Durham magician.

There is some choices you can make that will make your childs party a success. For one, you can seek out other parents and ask what they did for their Raleigh kids birthday party or how they made their Durham kids birthday party a good one.

ABC11 Eyewitness News has learned there's another North Carolina connection to the shooting rampage at Fort Hood.

One of Africa's rarest monkeys likely interbred with baboons in its past, new genetic research suggests.

Durham police are searching for 86-year-old Phyllis Jane Montgomery. Police say she suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

A newly built, 105-room Four Points by Sheraton has made its premier here in Morrisville, NC, which is in the Raleigh-Durham, NC, metropolitan area and minutes away from Raleigh-Durham Airport.

If an inept or abrasive boss is ruining your workday, you may be taking that stress to heart, literally.

The massive replacement for Durham County's aging courthouse is one step closer to the start of construction.

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This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre. We need to recall it so something like it never happens again.

A campus religious leader is unhappy about a study at Duke University that invites female students to attend parties where they can buy sex toys.

Commonly called the sabertoothed tiger, Smilodon fatalis was a large predatory cat that roamed North and South America about 1.6 million to 10,000 years ago, when there was also a prehistoric cat called the American lion.

North Carolina and national Muslim leaders want police to investigate if continuing vandalism to a Durham mosque is a possible hate crime.